Polarization insensitive all-optical wavelength conversion of polarization multiplexed signals using co-polarized pumps

Aravind P Anthur; Rui Zhou; Sean O'Duill; Anthony J Walsh; Eamonn Martin; Deepa Venkitesh; Liam P Barry

doi:10.1364/OE.24.011749

Polarization insensitive all-optical wavelength conversion of polarization multiplexed signals using co-polarized pumps

Opt Express. 2016 May 30;24(11):11749-61. doi: 10.1364/OE.24.011749.

Authors

Aravind P Anthur, Rui Zhou, Sean O'Duill, Anthony J Walsh, Eamonn Martin, Deepa Venkitesh, Liam P Barry

PMID: 27410100
DOI: 10.1364/OE.24.011749

Abstract

We study and experimentally validate the vector theory of four-wave mixing (FWM) in semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA). We use the vector theory of FWM to design a polarization insensitive all-optical wavelength converter, suitable for advanced modulation formats, using non-degenerate FWM in SOAs and parallelly polarized pumps. We demonstrate the wavelength conversion of polarization-multiplexed (PM)-QPSK, PM-16QAM and a Nyquist WDM super-channel modulated with PM-QPSK signals at a baud rate of 12.5 GBaud, with total data rates of 50 Gbps, 100 Gbps and 200 Gbps respectively.